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Hanno Böck wrote: |
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> Now, gegl has 13 optional dependencies that could be use-flagged. The pity is, |
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> it has no configure-option for most of them, they are autodetected. |
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> (It's about gtk, ruby, lua, cairo, pango, libpng, openexr, rsvg, sdl, |
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> asciidoc, enscript, graphviz and ffmpeg) |
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whoah! Quite a large number!. |
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> My experience with the gimp developers in the past was that they weren't very |
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> pleased by bugs about automagic deps and I assume if I post them without |
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> patches, they'll get closed immediately. Now I always avoided to dig too deep |
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> into autotools, so I don't feel skilled enough for this task. |
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Ping me and we could work out something, probably the best way would be |
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hack a PKG_CONFIG_CONDITIONAL that does whatever the canned pkgconfig |
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does+ adding the --enable option. |
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> Is there some brave gentoo dev (or non-dev, doesn't really matter) |
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> volunteering to send patches to gegl-upstream? |
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We could teamwork having some autostuff monkey doing part of the work, |
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you helping us trying out the result and whoever has better contact with |
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upstream could try to get the thing there. |
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> Beside, I'm asking myself how to handle this situation. Hard-enable them all |
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> as long as there are no patches? Let the automagic go in the tree? Opinions |
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> welcome. |
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Where is the ebuild, put it as is hardmasked with a note about this, |
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then we could work together on it. |
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lu |
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Luca Barbato |
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Gentoo Council Member |
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Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero |
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